The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-21
THE SEWER VALLEY
THE SEWER VALLEY.
tlJ} I area
A Cold Snap Visits the
Thriving District.
A QUERY FOR NURSERYMEN.
The Cereal and Fruit Crops-A Hemp
Famine-Cheese Making
General Items.
QUERY FOR NURSERYMEN.

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words.
We had the usual Conference storm
on the 7th inst, covering the mountains
with snow, with a mixture of snow and
rain in the valley. About the 1st of
September we had a severe freeze, form
ing ice one-half inch thick on standing
water, killing all the tender vines and
corn just in the milk, and destroying
| many an anxious boys melon patch
and his hopes of feast of the luscious
fruit that is so scarce in this high alti-
tude. All the fruit was killed in the
spring excepting few currants and
gooseberries. We have had some of the
wld,t d lie. T e, Cor Buffalo berries of the
plains
The Geneva Nursery canVassers have
| taken great many orders in this
county this season, but how the fruit
| industry will turn out in the Sewer
| Valley is question of time. Hereto
fore we have had small supply of ripe
and dried fruits from our Dixie, but
his season the supply has been cut off
| by Chicago agents buying up all the
| fruit in this country, we are told. But
by the way, where are the Salt Lake
nurserymen? There are thousands of
dollars going out of the country every
year that might be saved by local trade
If our nurserymen would wake up.
The wheat and oats crops have been
near average, though not near so much
| grain will be on the market this year on
account of drought and lack of water to
irrigate sufficiently all the land put in !;
and good deal of land was not put in
on account of the anticipated dry sea
son. But, Notwithstanding, the mer-
chants have put down wheat
and oats to the old figures,
IS to so cents for wheat per
bushel and 80 cents for. oats per cwt.,
and barley will run about the same.
Eggs have crawled up to Is cents per
dozen, and about the same figure for
butter per pound, but not much de-
mand, and our dairymen put all the
cream into the cheese business. A good
joke is told of dairyman in Grass VAL
ley in this connection: He started
over the mountains, going to GlenWood
crossing a deep ditch several of the
cheeses exploded, scattering butter all
over the dairyman, his wagon and
horses, and along theeroad; the fact
was the rough travelling had churned
his cheese into butter. This is warn
ing to dairymen-not to put too much
cream into their cheese.
A good deal of building is going on
this fall, though we have got on no I'M
usual boom, as our railroad en-
terprises seem to have died en-
tireIy out, and we feel down
in the mouth. We were hoping to have
railroad and depot at Richfield, and
many started into business on account
of the anticipations. Among the num-
Der, Isaac K. Wright hung out his sign
of the Wright House (hotel), Mr.. W. II.
Clark opened up wagon and machine
depot opposite the Wright Wagon and
Machine Depot. There are also two or
three other hotels in town The stores
seem to be doing fair business, among
them the Richfeld Coop, Thurber IL
Co., Widow Anderton's store, and Mr..
Peterson's new store, under his office,
where he carries on banking besides his
county survey business.
Father Perkins, the Rich6eld gar
dener, had fine show of ripe melons,
but the eternal boy" was too much for
him. Some of the wretches were col
Jared and dealt with according to law.
1t is hoped it will be a warning to HIM
in future.
Threshing is nearly finished, and
farmers are shipping to the mines and
preparing for another crop.
The Richfeld Advocate has not opened
out yet; it may before long, if long does
not tarry unnecessarily.
Two deaths were reported at Richfeld
yesterday-one of child and the other
of young man.
THE HERALD has grown to be a pub
lie necessity on the Sewer, and has
found place on the table of every wide
awake business man.
The Richmond Academy or High
School will open on Monday, 18th
inst; it is said that there is large
number of young men and women en-
rolled; the greatest portion will COM
mence on the first day, the others will
fall into line in a week or so, or when
the term is half over. The terms are
put down to the lowest possible living
rate in order to allow all to attend who
might have desire.
We have had famine in hemp this
fall-nos for hangman's use-but for
binding our grain. The people were
getting nicely into favor of the tWine
binder, and those having machines
went out soliciting custom, promising
to cut and furnish Irvine for three bus
hels of wheat per acre but by some
means they forgot to order Irvine and
there occurred such f,trore; machine
dealers had failed to provide any, and
then 8 10, the bridegroom cemeth," but
none had any Irvine; they telegraphed
east and west and all over but there
was no Irvine in the land. There was a
tall skirmishing for old machines,
droppers, headers, rakers and dump
ers, old worn out binders were fixed up
for headers, etc. There was not more
than half the grain in the county cut
when the Irvine famine occurred. The
fact is the bindermen were looking to
the farmer to provide his own twine
and the bindermen were looking to the
machine dealers to furnish twine, and
between them all failed and delayed the
harvest for full month or more. 1t is
hoped the bindermen will have the
good sense to provide Irvine before they
60 soliciting custom in the future, and
not cause such a catastrophe and such
severe loss to their customers, as
hundreds of bushels of grain were lost,
either being too ripe or bad work by
old WORKOUT machines to which the
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